poem

"Oh Adam was a gardener, and God who made him sees

That half a proper gardener's work is done upon his knees.

So when your work is finished you can wash your hands and pray

For the Glory of the Garden, that it may not pass away!

And the Glory of the Garden, it shall never pass away!

- Rudyard Kipling

quote flowers

"I think the reason that Grandma's garden is so well remembered is that children were allowed to pick as many flowers as they needed, for there was nothing rare or choice in the flower beds: petunias, four o'clocks, roses - the more they were picked, the better they bloomed."
- Elizabeth Lawrence

quote garden

'My garden is a veritable album, and as I wander over our place I find many a dear friend or happy hour commemorated in it."
- Mrs. Theodore Thomas